Is Peter Thiel the target of Pope Leo's Gandalf quote? An investigation.
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一篇关于教皇方济各在新通谕中引用甘道夫语录的报道引发讨论。文章指出，这份关于人工智能与技术的重磅文件中唯一引用的文学角色是《指环王》中的甘道夫。作者推测，教皇可能借此向科技界人士彼得·蒂尔传递信息，后者曾公开表达对人工智能的担忧。文章以幽默口吻探讨这一引用是否暗含深意。
I'm not suggesting that a man like Pope Leo—the Vicar of Christ, the Bishop of Rome, the Servant of the Servants of God—would stoop to anything quite so base as "trolling" the onetime PayPal co-founder and current Antichrist alarmist Peter Thiel. But I'm also not not suggesting it, if you see what I mean.
How else to explain the novel appearance of Gandalf—yes, the pipe-smoking wizard!—in the pages of one of Catholicism's most important documents, a major papal encyclical about AI and technology? Perhaps Leo, who was born and raised in Chicago before spending decades in Peru, is simply a big J.R.R. Tolkien buff who can't get enough of magic rings, Eldar lore, and tricksy little hobbitses. Or perhaps Leo is sending a message.
In his new encyclical, released yesterday, Leo quotes one literary character in the entire 40,000-word document. It's Gandalf, doling out some of his wisdom in a scene from Return of the King: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”
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